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FIRST spawned in the ghetto, drug addiction quickly spread to the middle-class suburbs, colleges and high schools. Now, in corporations across the country, the cloying whiff of marijuana in the stairwell and the hastily dumped syringe in the washroom attest to the rapid growth of on-the-job drug users...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Rising Problem of Drugs on the Job | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...citizens turned the two-night extravaganza into a community project. The Minsky show was staged in the nearby Shubert Theater, and post-performance parties were thrown at the Gayety. Some 100 lady volunteers scrubbed away part of the Gayety's grime and even painted over the most unsavory washroom graffiti. Sixty years of libidinous musk was impossible to eradicate, however; before the opening-night party, Flit guns filled with Nettie Rosenstein perfume were distributed among the ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Grinding to a Halt | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

...weeks ago, the teachers searched the lounge and found a bugging device hidden behind a heating duct; the wires led directly to the office of School Superintendent Charles Murphy. Two more bugs turned up in a washroom adjoining the lounge. Their wires ran through the speech correction room, then through a trap door to an earphone set locked in a filing cabinet in the office of Assistant Principal Gerald Rittersdorf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teachers: Bugging the Bargainers | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

Including the Washroom. Kleindienst lived up to his reputation last week with a memorandum that he circulated to each of the Justice Department's 1,050 Washington lawyers. As part of an efficiency experiment, Kleindienst ordered all staff attorneys to submit detailed daily reports of their working day. Starting this week, the lawyers will record their activities on time sheets. At the end of each day, the data must be transferred to a second form on which will appear the total amount of time spent on every activity, whether it be visits to the washroom or a plea before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Justice Department: A Mandate for Clock Watching | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

Cornerback Johnny Sample spent five minutes alone in the stadium washroom, kneeling in prayer. And Joe's mother was at home saying the rosary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Impossible Reality | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

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